Thursday at the Primature, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, Simon Dieuseul Desras, President of the Senate and Jean Tholbert Alexis, President of the Chamber of Deputies, held a joint press conference in the presence of Ralph Théano Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament and Stevenson Jacques Thimoléon, President of the majority bloc in the Lower House in order to present to the population priority bills on which the Executive and Parliament are working within the framework of the second ordinary session of the legislative year.

On the menu of the legislative agenda appears, inter alia, the following bills :

• Bill on the establishment, organization and functioning of the National Fund for Education (FNE) ;

• Bill on microcredit ;

• Bill on food security ;

• Bill fixing the number and the name of ministries ;

• Projet de loi établissant le cadre d’organisation et de fonctionnement des collectivités territoriales ;

• Bill on e-government ;

• Bill on electronic signature adapting the law of evidence to the information technology expanding the powers of the National Council of Telecommunications ;

• Bill on electronic exchanges ;

• Bill on consumer protection ;

• Bill on the quality control of food ;

• Bill sanctioning money laundering and terrorist financing.

"Instructions are already gave to the various Ministers of the Government concerned in order to be always available in the context of responding to parliamentary questions on these bills tabled in Parliament," said the Prime Minister.

For his part, the President of the Senate, Senator Simon Dieuseul Desras, emphasized on the necessity to work continuously and quickly so that the Parliament may rule on these bills before the end of the second ordinary session of the legislative year.

The Deputy Jean Tholbert Alexis, President of the Lower House, meanwhile, announced the resumption of the passage of the law on money laundering and terrorist financing.

Moreover, the Prime Minister reiterated his determination to work in synergy with the Parliament and promised to mobilize all the resources of government to address the concerns of the population.

HL/ HaitiLibre